ss expolration Flashcards
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Navigation
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The theory and practice of direction
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Merchant
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A person who buys and sells goods for a profit
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Astrolabe
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An instrument used by sailers to observe positions of stars
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Caravel
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Small fast ship with a broad bow
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Magnetic compass
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Device that shows which direction is north
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Colony
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A group of people settled in a distant land who are ruled by the government of their native land
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Columbian exchange
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Exchange of goods ideas and people between Europe and Americans
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Plantations
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A large estate run by an owner or manager and farmed by laborers that live there
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Missions
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Religious settlement
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Encomienda
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System of rewarding conquistadors with tracts of land and the right to tax and demand labor from native Americans who lived on the land
